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Blossom Court invites Cañon City Council to Cañon City Music & Blossom Festival

Blossom Queen says plenty of fun on tap for all ages

By Carie Canterbury

canterburyc@canoncitydailyrecord.com

Posted:
04/21/2014 09:16:58 PM MDT

2014 Cañon City Music & Blossom Festival Queen Cassandra Giammo invites the Cañon City Council on Monday to the upcoming Music & Blossom Festival, which will be May 1-4. (Carie Canterbury / Daily Record)

Cañon City Sales Tax Collections

March 2014: $423,000

March 2013: $412,000

March 2012: $409,000

January 2014: $528,000

February 2014: $412,000

Information provided by City Finance Director Harry Patel

The Cañon City Council on Monday received a royal invitation to the Cañon City Music & Blossom Festival that will be packed with events and activities May 1-4.

2014 Music & Blossom Festival Queen Cassandra Giammo and her court, First Attendant Carissa Harlow; Second Attendant Breanna Lancaster; and Miss Personality Alexia Phillips, spoke during Monday's regular council meeting. They talked about the Blossom Queens Pageant in March and the upcoming Blossom Festival.

New this year, block parties on Main Street preceding the parade will have something fun and entertaining for all ages, Giammo said. Giammo and her court will sign autographs during a meet and greet at 12:30 p.m. May 4 at Centennial Park.

Lancaster said the band competitions will feature 22 parade bands, 44 concert and orchestra bands and 28 jazz bands.

"In the past, we haven't had a lot of people come and watch the bands perform at the high school, either at CCHS or at Florence High School, so we we're really trying to encourage (people) to come," she said. "It's free, and we really want to show support."

On May 3, Touch of Love Florist and Weddings will showcase a float made entirely of flowers, and the Cañonland Walkers and Hikers will show relics they saved from the Royal Gorge Fire.

Also during the meeting, Fremont County resident Harry Kitchen spoke to the council about recent news stories related to marijuana and marijuana use.

He said the raid of 12 marijuana shops in Denver earlier this year stem from non-compliance with the law; a college student visiting Denver who allegedly "jumped to his death from a hotel balcony after eating marijuana-infused cookies" actually fell from "planking" or lying flat on the balcony edge; and Denver man Richard Kirk, who allegedly shot his wife to death after he reportedly consumed marijuana edibles and began hallucinating, actually had six times the amount of pain killers in his system, in addition to marijuana.

Kitchen said Colorado is No. 1 in the United States for painkiller deaths among young people in grades first to 12th.

"They don't get them from suppliers, they come from their parents and other students who get them from their parents," he said.

The council took the following action:

— Approved an application for Special Event Liquor Permit for Fremont Community Foundation for the Flashback on Main Street event May 16.